kamspy said:
monoprice VGA cable is my 360 interconnect of choice.
Especially if you have a 768p, 900p or 1050p monitor/tv. .
The HDMI in the 360 must have some sort of extra D/A step because it degrades the image quality on my displays. Especially aliasing. Maybe because the 360 was designed with analog outputs? I think I read somewhere (probably bs) that they really cheaped out on the HDMI thing and basically put an analog -> HDMI converter in instead of really integrating it(?).
Exact same issue with HDMI. I don't think it's BS at.
Something is going on for sure, and not enough people know about it. I'm not a tech guy, but I made a thread a while back regarding the image degradation issue with HDMI on my set, and I got a mix of answers.
Fact is. If your set is not 1080p then chances are, it's 768p or some other PC resolution. VGA is the only way to go, period, for some sets.
And hell it's not like my set is some off brand piece of garbage. It's a freakin Bravia. Low end model obviously (not 1080p, limited features), but still, you would think it'd been 720p native.
I seriously thought there was something wrong with my TV when I used HDMI. Component only allowed 720p or 1080i, and both were automatically overscanned with no way to turn the overscan off.
I bet you a lot of people are doing HDMI with their 360's, and getting a shoddy image but don't know any better. I would love the know the true reason for this. Where did you read about this?
blame space said:
I have a question about VGA on Xbox 360:
My monitor is 900p or whatever, and I currently have my 360 hooked up via component. It looks okay. If I were to get a VGA cable and set it to my monitor's native resolution, does that mean the games will actually run in that resolution? I ask because with all of the 600p-gate hullabulloo, that doesn't seem to make sense.
Sorry for the wording, I'm very tired and on my phone. Does my question make sense?
Yes. And you should.
The 360 will internally scale the games to the resolution of your monitor. You can't do any better than that.
HDMI would probably match the native resolution as well. But if the TV is native 900p, you could run into the same problem talked about above. I recommend VGA for you.